The Republic
Subtitle: Plato's utopia
By: a presentation of Discovery Networks in association with Cronkite Ward
Contributors: Minor, Dale; Sutherland, Donald, 1935-; Discovery Networks; Cronkite Ward Company; Library of Congress. Center for the Book; Discovery Communications, Inc; Discovery Channel University; Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Series: Great books; Great books (Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)); POL 330 (NU course)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Utopias; Political science; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Plato's Utopia
Description: "This timeless program scrutinizes The Republic, a work that has intrigued and infuriated for thousands of years. Was Plato's plan for an ideal city, a place where philosophers are rulers and wisdom is the cornerstone of society, a blueprint, a satire, or a bit of both? Columbia University's Bonnie Kent; Princeton University's Alexander Nehamas; Martha Nussbaum, of The University of Chicago; Thomas Pangle, of the University of Toronto; poet Joseph Brodsky; novelist Joyce Carol Oates; William Bennett, former U.S. Secretary of Education; and radio personality Michael Savage consider the worth of a system that promotes the common good through state control that, by necessity, must involve censorship and eugenics"--Container.
Notes: "Produced in cooperation with The Center for the Book, Library of Congress."

DVD release of the 1996 production by Discovery Communications, Inc.

"Discovery Channel University"--Container.

Producer, Jan Albert; writers, Jan Albert and Dale Minor.

Narrator, Donald Sutherland.

DVD.